Quotes About Meaning

When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman.

To be thoroughly and abidingly happy is not only to get what we all instinctively desire, but to fulfill the purpose of our nature.

True meaning in life comes through understanding your own nature and learning to accept all aspects of yourself.

I can't really connect with things unless they are spiritual in nature, so I have to make acting spiritual for myself, and each role a spiritual journey for me.

As Nature is always careless and indifferent Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty.

The old question of whether there is design is idle. The real question is what is the world, whether or not it have a designer--and that can be revealed only by the study of all nature's particulars.

It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be a record or a testimony.

Nature does nothing uselessly.

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word "glory" a meaning for me.

A philosopher is a deep thinker and a meticulous observer of nature and events that reveal the beauty, truth, and meaning of existence.

You are soft person you said. But you're soft as shit: it is very soft but stinking!

I believe, that creating is a joyful activity as well as a meaningful suffer, and thus, it is an integral part of the human nature.

As intellectualism suppresses belief in magic, the world's processes become disenchanted, lose the magical significance, and henceforth simply 'are' and 'happen' but no longer signify anything.

To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!" (Buck, 57)

Our nature gives us purpose, to reflect and act upon, responsibly by choice.

And the ultimate question remains, To live, is it a blessing or the punishment itself ?

The author is still dead, folks!!

If you reconnect with nature and the wilderness you will not only find the meaning of life, but you will experience what it means to be truly alive.

The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers

Fortunately, in her kindness and patience, Nature has never put the fatal question as to the meaning of their lives into the mouths of most people. And where no one asks, no one needs to answer.

A classic is like a hidden treasure. Its core is buried under so many layers of varnish that it can be reached only by patience and infiltration.